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PostgreSQL 8.4.17

Overview

PostgreSQL is one of the most renowned open source object-relational database systems today. With features like asynchronous replication and version control, it is an essential for enterprises looking for an advanced database management system.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that's been under active development for over 15 years. An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts sophisticated features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), point in time recovery, table spaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions (save points), online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write ahead logging for fault tolerance. It supports international character sets, multibyte character encodings, Unicode, and it is locale-aware for sorting, case-sensitivity, and formatting.